A lifelong Chicago resident, Paul Bruton got his start in public service working for I-GO Car Sharing, a Chicagoland non-profit dedicated to car-sharing to protect the environment and curb high transportation costs. He then went on to get his public policy master’s degree at Northwestern University before working for the Chicago Inspector General’s Office. He said in his campaign bio that his work in the community in the Inspector General’s office made him realize “how often city workers were expected to get the job done without the right tools, technology, and training that they needed to effectively do their work.” He left the office in 2018 to raise his two children but decided to throw his hat in for the 13^th ward “to fight Chicago’s legacy of corruption,” he wrote in his campaign bio.

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